I have not had any issues printing on Linux. Although I use ubunutu instead of arch so maybe that’s the reason. I also use an Epson printer which I have never had an issue hooking up to any PC over WiFi.
Printing and also scanning. The Gnome scanning tool is like, so much easier and more intuitive than any of the other BS software I used on Windows, and I don’t have to install proprietary spyware.
Yep, had to do that and spend hours reading about printing services in Linux and other OSs out of curiosity. Was very useful, not that I remember any of it now.
My printer can print, but most of the other features are locked behind Brothers drivers. Copying/ scanning from the document feeder and duplex were kind of a pain to get working, and for some reason only work from certain programs.
It’s something we can thank Apple for. CUPS is the standard printing system on practically all non-Windows OSes, and Apple hired its developer and did a lot of work on improving it in the 2000s and 2010s.
Me too. I have a Brother printer. When I first set it up, Windows printed everything in inverse black and white until I hunted down the correct driver. Windows also never figured out how to wake it up, so I always had to manually wake it up. And it simply never worked with the scanner.
Linux got everything right without me having to fuss with anything.
Easier than what, exactly? Windows always works out of the box for shit like printers. If it didn’t, 99% of their user base would be calling it defective.
OSX, on the other hand, is where I’ve had so, so many issues with printers.
I FINALLY FOUND SOMEBODY ELSE WHO REMEMBERS AND CELEBRATES THE JOURNEYMAN PROJECT TRILOGY!
I’m sorry, I’m just…I’m very happy for this moment.
Legacy of Time was far and away my favorite, but the entire collection is a fun and satisfying playthrough. Great atmosphere, clever puzzles, and loads of 90s PC gaming cheese and charm.
And Arthur! Man Arthur was such a fun companion. Witty, funny and was also helpful in guiding you into harder puzzles without just giving you the answer!
There’s a lovely series called Mysty. Part of a YouTube channel that I originally found because the guy is stumbling through creating his own 3D graphics engine.
In Mysty he plays a lot of the old Myst-like games, many I’d never heard of. It’s funny and worth checking out. He has played the first two Journeyman games so far. youtube.com/
Getting pretty sick of being bled dry by greedy wealth hoarders who have captured the regulatory system. Looking more and more like they WANT violence.
Ya’ll, this already happens - wholesale and retail pricing vs consumer pricing. This exact principle is why many states refuse sales tax - those disproportionately affect poorer people because a lot of rich people can buy items through their LLCs and get bulk or retailer pricing.
Costco has memberships based on this - there’s the regular and then the executive memberships. You spend more on the higher level memberships (essentially an income check) and also get more money back later. Credit card promos function like this. Credit scores and loans function like this.
Grocery stores (capital) will never give us a break on food (money). They will always try to find a way to make the poor pay even more. That’s why it’s called capitalism - all that is valued is capital and capital accrues more capital. That’s the game.
Costco, credit card promos, and loans are all opt-in, though; you have to initiate the transaction. You make the choice, you have some level of control (even if that is only walking away).
This, on the other hand, is making changes to a necessity that’s offered to you based on something outside your control; you have no ability to control the transaction’s decision, and you can’t just walk away from buying food.
Yes, this is the game. But it’s playing with people’s lives; and whereas capitalism used to guarantee that companies would compete with one another to get prices as low as they could be, this AI “innovation”—coupled with the “not collusion, wink wink” of four megacorps controlling everything—means that something needs to be done. And it needs to be something more than just “shrug, capital gonna capital.”
I recognize price controls would be a bit too much to hope for in this society, but demanding price transparency and equity seems like something we could actually manage.
I mean I don’t think this is fair, but I also don’t think this will ever happen in this way. If something like this happened, it would be to increase the price for poorer people to drive them away, because poorer people tend to use more resources and drive away rich people.
Part of the issue with real goods pricing, especially food, is that it directly reflects the stock market. The word “stock” itself comes from “livestock.” A farmer in the 1800s predicted many peaks/troughs of the stock market based on solar cycles - the Benner cycle. therationalinvestor.com/…/how-the-benner-cycle-pr…
Owning physical stock is what the stock market is kinda based on, plus a weird family feud popularity contest and insider trading.
So to regulate the price of goods, we will.have ti regulate the stock market. To regulate the stock market, we will have to regulate the ownership of companies, because that’s what the stock market also is - ownership in a company. I’m all for mandating every company be a cooperatively owned, worker owned company. I’d vote for that TODAY.
I also don’t think this will ever happen in this way
Isn’t it already happening, though? Maybe not for necessities, at least not yet; but if you’re researching travel, the common wisdom is to research through private browsers to be sure that they can’t jack up the price on you to create an artificial incentive to buy before the price goes up again. If you are booking certain things like rental cars, booking through a VPN based in a country with a favorable exchange rate or lower number of tourists can sometimes get you a preferential rate. If capitalists are willing to deploy that sort of thing online, you can bet they’re hoping for the ability to do so in real life.
I’m all for mandating every company be a cooperatively owned, worker owned company. I’d vote for that TODAY.
Same. Even if we mandated that all companies’ voting shares include 50% plus one vote shares controlled by employees, it would be a huge step in the right direction.
Sure, but you’ll notice that’s something you have to work hard to bypass capitalism to do. It’s not something capitalists are actually offering or would program into their algorithms, because it’s directly against anything capitalism values or rewards. They are not here to provide a service. They are here to take money, to make capital. Which is often why they make the system less efficient, eg Turbo Tax. Giving a discount eats into their profit margins, so they’d rather lose the customer than lose the profit margin, because their resources are all finite. Yes there may be a discount in some countries, but within the same store it is very unlikely they will reward poverty by giving it a discount and eating into their profit margins. It just doesn’t make sense. This meme is propaganda to upset the middle class towards the poor.
And yes I’d take ANYTHING approaching the limit of worker owned companies. Also if every election could be approval based voting or ranked choice.
Giving a discount eats into their profit margins, so they’d rather lose the customer than lose the profit margin, because their resources are all finite.
So why do stores have sales, ever? No, although groceries are low-margin items, they still retain high enough markups that they can still make money even with discounts, particularly when offering loss leaders. And with this technology, they can optimize for both price and customer retention, by keeping a price artificially inflated for those who can afford it and only lowering it when they’re at risk of losing a customer.
Which sounds like a good idea, right? But it’s not going to be accurate, ever. They’re only ever going to miscategorize people and charge single moms double.
And let’s be honest, it won’t be used to give poor people discounts. It’ll be used to raise prices for middle class people.
Also if every election could be approval based voting or ranked choice.
To their credit, Denuvo has been very effective for the past year. Now instead of playing some games I wouldn’t have bought anyway, I just don’t play them.
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